English
graveclothes
From grave + clothes.
Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- ‘to dig, scratch, scrape’
Proto-Germanic *grabą
Proto-West Germanic *grab
Old English græf ‘cave, grave, trench’
Middle English grave ‘grave, burial’
English grave
Proto-Germanic *klaiþą ‘patch; cloth’
Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ ‘cloth’
Old English clāþ ‘cloth; (plural) clothes’
Middle English clothes
English clothes
Today it means
noun The clothes in which a corpse is buried.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / graveclothes